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Ernő Lendvai (6 February 1925 – 31 January 1993) was one of the first
music theorist
Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. '' The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the " rudiments", that ...
s to write on the appearance of the
golden section
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and
Fibonacci series and how these are implemented in
Bartók's music. He also formulated the
axis system,
acoustic scale and
alpha chord.
Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to
Szombathely
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in 1949 to run a local music school.
Selected works
In Hungarian
* Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994)
* Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
* Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó, 1984)
* Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980)
* Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zeneműkiadó, 1975)
* Bartók Dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)
In German
* Bartók's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001)
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In English
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* Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999)
* Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988)
* The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983)
* Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980)
* Symmetries of Music
Notes and references
Hungarian music educators
Hungarian music theorists
1925 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Hungarian musicologists
Bartók scholars
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